· Private foundation
Clack Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $970k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $366,000 |
| MARC INC | $304,154 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $300,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION IN NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY | $100,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $25,000 |
| CAMP JORN YMCA | $25,000 |
| WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATING SERVICE DOGS INC | $10,000 |
| MW MUSIC IN THE PARK INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +39%
- CJCAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +63%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- VAVERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +39%
- SCSeton Catholic Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $75k
HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Service for disabled adults
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
Access ability wisconsin, inc (aaw)'s mission is to provide expertise and resources to promote access and opportunities for people with temporary or permanent mobility challenges (such as injuries resulting in paralysis) to experience…
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
The mission of wisconsin badger camp is to serve people with developmental disabilities by providing quality outdoor recreational experiences.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwoods Tractor Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION IN ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Manitowish Waters Fire Company ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOVIN OUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC - DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS TRACTOR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baer Family Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · May Family Foundation Inc · Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Clack Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.